Weather app on Android lock screen, the bugger

I have two smartphones. One is Samsung S4 +4G android, and the other is Nokia Lumia 920 windows phone. On my Nokia Windows phone I don’t have that bugger weather app that is stuck in twilight zone , locked in time and space on the Lock Screen. Who designed this madness. Anyway, I am surely and definitely not the only one irritated over that weather widget app. Mine have been showing +2 C and rain – for months everyday.

There are ways that seems to work off and on for various users. I’ve tried many of them. I hope the the oneI made yesterday will have done the trick. I say hope because the widget app seem to haunt and com back, having tried other things before. My problem with the Samsung weather widget on the lockscreen started when I stupidly updated to Lollipop 5.1. I should have stayed with Kit kat.

What I hope solved it this time, fingers crossed, is that the weather app from yahoo I used on my home screen, was removed. Drag and dropped in the bin. And I reapplied my AccuWeather app on the home screen again. I also have since long ago removed, disabled the monitoring setting: places. Disabled it.

So hope this works now. Unfortunately the AccuWeather app was the first app to Crack when I installed lollipop 5.1 a month or two ago. Surprisingly working now. It seams.

As of now though, one day after, the dam weather widget on the lock screen is gone. Jippi!

Now as much as I do enjoy many features and services from Google, I equally dislike some. And equally enjoy and sometimes dislike how Microsoft make theirs. I have found after using Windows phone for now three years, that what generally is bad with windows phone, is bad apps. And not windows phone OS so much.

As great as the smartphones are, I feel very limited in how I can correct bad user experience settings overall. On all smartphone devices. One really is locked in a system. And on smartphones it’s very apparant  More than on a pc and laptop. Windows 8.1 for pc feels refreshing in comparison to smartphones OS universe.

Hope better will come with windows 10 and Android in the future.

Stefan Lindblad
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illustration, design & art
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